Santa claus spreading good cheer!

I was asked to design Santa Claus cupcakes for a client’s office party, as luck would have it Sydney was home for Thanksgiving break. I must admit it was  exhilarating to be baking along side Sydney. I love when we work as a team and I take full advantage of our family time!

The Santa Claus cupcakes were inspired by the movie “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Originally I had sketched out for elves and the big man himself (Santa Claus); however as Sydney and I began constructing our cupcakes we noticed each of  our cupcakes looked like Santa claus. We decided to decorate all the cupcake with Santa likeness.

Have Fun

The flavor commotion of the mocha-cinnamon fondant and vanilla-almond is heavenly!! 

Santa Fondant Cupcake Design:

Skill level – Easy

I adore the rosy cheeks!

Equipment:

• Mini rolling pin, Cc
• Work Board, OP
• Circle Cutter
• Triangle cutte
• Plain wheel, PME
• Quilting tool, PME
• Star modeling tool, PME
• Piping tip, Wilton #12 round
• Piping tip, Wilton #7
• Storage bags for fondant and paste
• Dental gauze wrapped with plastic wrap, tight and smith
• Pink foam, Wilton or fun foam

Materials:

• Fondant, Fondaric mix cinnamon & mocha, or ivory coloured
• Fondant, wedding white
• Flower paste (gum paste), Renshaw white
• Crisco
• Edible glue or egg white
• Dusky pink,Sf
• Satin doll, CC
• Snow white glitter, CK
• Pearl petal dust, Blossom
• Artist brushes
• Parchment paper squares

Find the materials and equipment here

 The cupcakes need to be flat for the Santa Claus design, if your cupcakes have domed cut the tops off with a serrated knife.

For the rim of the hat, the pom pom ball, mustache, beard, and whites of the eyes you need to knead a 75/25%  of gum paste and white fondant, (75% fondant 25% flower paste (gumpaste).

Attaching the santa design to the cupcake:

Lightly brush the cupcake tops with vodka, piping gel, or a crumb coat of butter cream. Carefully lift the circle design with your off-set spatula and transfer to the prepared cupcake. You will not need to push on the design to adhere, the weight of Santa Claus will cause the fondant to adhere on it’s own!

Have fun and I would enjoy seeing your Santa Claus cupcakes!

If you have any question please leave a comment.

Bonus: Sugar Cookie Version:

If you want the design to be constructed on a sugar or gingerbread cookie, follow the same method above.

Except pipe the nose, eye balls, and pupils.

These Santa Claus Cupcakes enchant the child in all of us!

Enjoy!

Voila!